Cinecast Mailbag (7/13)
We've got mail...
* "Google Translator Sucks!": We're sorry, Susanna Montezemolo. Google Translator Massacre Theatre was a failure. We admit it. We've had a few correct entries, but we've had even more listeners let us know that the new format takes a lot of the fun out of playing. Let's call it Cinecast's version of New Coke. An experiment that failed. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to share their thoughts. We'll return to the old format on Cinecast #22 (which won't be available until next Monday evening).
* Dark City vs. The Matrix: On Cinecast #20, Adam chose "Dark City" as his #5 Sci-Fi film. He discussed how the film, which was released in 1998, contained striking similarities to 1999's "The Matrix." No one is claiming that the Wachowski Brothers ripped off a film released only a single year before their own, but listener Dusty Calbertson sent us an interesting link that shows how the two films have much more in common than a menacing vision of the future. Worth checking out...
Sam
4 Comments:
Automatical translators can be fun, though.
Living in Germany I received an email from an man who who wasn´t certain that I spoke English good enough and had his email translated before sending it.
"Dear Frank" mutated to "Lieb offen", which re-translated means as much as "Love open"...
I loved it.
-Frank.
That's very funny. And Sam and I had a lot fun trying it out. But we think the old way worked fine...
Come on, I liked the Google Translator one - I even got the answer right away.
Maybe we'll have to put up a poll question and get a definitive 'answer' from our listeners. Right now more people liked it better the old way than with the translator, but the race is getting tighter.
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